The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.

Leaders grasp nettles.

What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?

You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.